"If we fail to maintain these important investments, we could lose our position as a global leader in research and technology."
"Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not the right way to set our priorities as a nation."
"I think Senator Sessions was in those hearings--and I was really struck and impressed by the bipartisan spirit of those hearings."
"We should be investing more in our children, but sequestration right now is really taking us in the wrong direction."
"The families we represent are looking to us to end the constant artificial crises."
"It seems to me that repudiating our debt should be off the table."
"The House Republican Budget takes a very different approach. It does not simply accept sequestration; it makes it worse."
"I think the testimony of the witnesses... sheds some light on one of the challenges... that we are having about trying to get the Senate budget into conference with the House."
"We ought to be committed to investing in our kids, and we ought to be committed to making sure that the investments are done the best possible way."
"We are the first of the three branches in the Constitution."
"There is bipartisan agreement that sequestration is the wrong way to cut spending."